Amazon is a place to work on building new applications. Unlike a long-established company at steady business model, Amazon is always at Day1. This means the mentality of trying and creating new business model, make-break-test attitude is always present. So one gets to see new products/services in production, also see them getting built from scratch.So if you are the kind who loves to learn and work in make-break / try-by-doing and if you can sustain the ambiguity around that, you'll enjoy working at Amazon.

Cons

Its a fast paced environment. At times, you may feel overwhelmed.Sometimes, some products / ideas dont work and you got to move on to next idea to try.People move from team to team, and there could be some changes in management styles and direction (not very frequent though). One got to work around those.A large part of your career building is up-to you - means you got to understand how you move forward with the projects in hand and where could be the next building opportunity.

Advice to Management

I think they are doing pretty good job in terms of managing such a huge company (which grew so fast recently). From ground up, I think there are some replications in products / services. But that too is natural when the company is growing so fast, building new things at hectic pace.

You work with very hard working peopleYou will learn how to deal with tremendous ambiguityYou will be pushed beyond you limits, which can be amazing for some and horrible for othersIf you’re lucky you get a great manager and teammates

Cons

The ambiguity of what you are doing can get just overwhelming. You have no control or any say in any top down decisions. You are WORKED at times to the brink of madness. Multiple days where I didn’t have time to take lunches or breaks. Would go hours on end with out eating because I just had no time between jobs. No company car for a job where you may drive over 100 miles a day. It felt like upper management only pretended to listen. The job went from us being consultants to literally becoming handymen. Had hardly any proper training on how to use drilling equipment, had no space to practice TV Mounting or security camera mounting. It took over a year to get semi professional looking polo shirts. It was simply a disappointing experience at the tail end of my time here.

In less than 2 years I was absolutely BURNT OUT and dreaded going to work.

Advice to Management

Please listen to your Field Technicians. Implement their ideas. They are the face of Alexa and your boots on the ground. If you aren’t going to pay them more, give them better and bigger offices and please provide company cars. You’re a tech company, care a little bit more about those that represent your organization.

Amazon is a great company towards its customers--they genuinely believe in customer obsession

Cons

Below standard pay, benefits are weak, perks are non-existentThe company culture is leaned heavily toward executives--almost all of the higher ups frankly have zero personality and everything they do is dependent on data. The company has a very cold and sterile disposition across the company. Leaders love to stack rank and provide feedback but are retaliatory when they are given feedback

Only stocks and the experience. You do a lot of things everyday that you'd do once in awhile in the traditional setting.

Cons

Bluntly stated - the job sucks, lol. HRBPs are incompetent and create more stress than solves, though they are "hand-picked" as Behavioral Champions. Lots and lots of bureaucracy. Underpaid for the scale/scope of work you do. ER is out the door when it comes to upper management. Senior Leaders are extremely disrespectful with no leash due to HRBP/HRMs attempting to preserve relationships. Lots of opportunity, just not a feasible/reasonable possibility in securing those opportunities. Internal recruiting process is extremely flawed. This is a crap work role. Most HRAs leave the company/organization and honestly do not promote. You'll enjoy your work for a maximum of 1 year.

Advice to Management

You will eventually run out of excuses to combat the "rumors" in the media. Look inward, performance managers out that need to be performanced and restructure your methods of doing what you do. Managers will be the death of this company.

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